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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill. Eric 26:43 And this is in primary care, right? So we did primary care. Go ahead, Connie.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

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But now that at least at the University of Pennsylvania, the radiation oncology department is sort of well integrated into the cancer center here, and we have a really strong relationship with the palliative care team and even the internal medicine residents whom we give talks to. Eric 09:13 Do you ever get it from a hospice agency?

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

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Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. Jace 30:29 For a long caregiver challenges and not, you know, having to go into spaces that are heavily like hetero and cis normative in terms of how they provide services, how they navigate relationships.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

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If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Do elements of care that are often administered to seriously ill patients count? If its low evidence but not unsafe, not generally an issue. Think vitamins. Think chemo. What counts as potentially unsafe?

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. No difference in their primary outcome. I went into emergency medicine to act.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.